All right, this is just awesome. Israel/Tel Aviv took part in the "Earth Hour," a global-wide effort to increase Global Climate Change awareness.
Cites from all over the world including Chicago, Sydney and Tel Aviv turned off the lights of the entire city for one hour, from 8-9 pm in their respective time zones.
Tel Aviv, breaking from the cities in the rest of the world, had their Earth Hour event on Thursday night, rather then Motzei Shabbos, and was kicked off by an event on Azrieli skyscraper by none other than Shimon Peres, who has long promoted environmental policies in Israel.
Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai initiated the countdown as the building behind went black. 40,000 people then gathered in Rabin Square to hear a concert powered by an alternative energy source...cycling Israel's and distilled falafel oil.
This event also happened to coincide with the start of Israel's daylight savings, a practice put in place so that people would use less energy.
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